The Mitchells Plain Hospital services some of the poorest communities of the Western Cape and includes Mitchells Plain, Browns Farm, Strandfontein, Crossroads and Mandalay. The hospital was originally built to deal with a catchment area of 150 000 people. This area grew to around 1.5 million people in 2007.
The SAME Foundation, The Global Fund, and The Western Cape Health Department partnered for funding a new Emergency Centre that treated an average of 130 people per day. Working together, the Emergency Centre was equipped with sufficient necessary equipment.